This somehow reminds me of the days when the fastest way to deep copy an object in javascript was to round trip through toString. I thought that was gross then, and I think this is gross now
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As an aside, if the author reads this, did you consider using bitfields for the superposition state (ie, what options are available for a tile)? I did a wfc implementation a while back and moved to bitfields after a while.. the speedup was incredible. It became faster to just recompute a chunk from scratch than backtrack because the inner loop was nearly completely branchless. I think my chunks were 100 tiles cubed or something.
Imagine working on voyager II .. or some old-ass banking software that still runs RPG (look it up, I'll wait), or trying to hire someone to do numerical analysis for the genesis of a format that supercedes IEEE float .. or .. whatever.
There are many applications for extremely specific skillsets out there. Suggesting otherwise is, in my opinion, clearly unwise
I have some feedback that's annoyingly non-specific.
I used Zulip a few years ago as a contractor. It seemed _fine_, but I didn't love it. Specifically, the UI felt sluggish and generally the experience was somewhat unpolished. Maybe things have changed, a lot happens in a couple years, but there you go
I'm from Canada, and I like cars for many of the same reasons I like programming. They're complicated, fickle, and go fucking fast when you get everything right. It's like mainlining adrenaline and validation at the same time.. who wouldn't like that?! They're just fucking fun
I was in the bar in Revelstoke (where I lived, at the time) chatting with an old-timer the other year, and I asked him "is it just me, or did it used to snow more?"
He laughed, and told me that when he was a kid growing up, they weren't allowed to play on the tops of snowbanks because you'd get electrocuted by the high tension power lines. At the time, mid-winter, it was raining outside with a sad pile of slush maybe 1 foot deep.
Even when I was a kid in Revy, snowbanks were 10' deep mid-winter, every winter. It's been raining in town for the last 5 years, all winter. Winter's over. Time to start surfing, I guess.
I don't wanna dunk on this, it's a cool idea, but you can generate a lot of Perlin noise in 16ms ..
Why, exactly?
Refuting facts with "I doubt it, bro" isn't exactly a productive contribution to the conversation..
Take the C4 training dataset for example. The uncompressed, uncleaned, size of the dataset is ~6TB, and contains an exhaustive English language scrape of the public internet from 2019. The cleaned (still uncompressed) dataset is significantly less than 1TB.
I could go on, but, I think it's already pretty obvious that 1TB is more than enough storage to represent a significant portion of the internet.
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> the compiler will require you to deal with it somehow in g
I agree, this is the sensible solution.
I expect artists will experiment with the new tools and produce incredibly creative works with them, far beyond the quality I can produce by typing in "a pelican riding a bicycle".
> If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to zero.
> Counterintuitively, that’s my biggest reason to be optimistic about AI and creativity. When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.
Love that. I've been struggling to succinctly put that feeling into words, bravo.
The observation I was trying to make is that at the scope of one week, there's very little you actually get done, and it's likely mostly mechanical work. Given that, I suppose I'm unsurprised LLMs are proving useful. Seems like that's the type of thing they're excelling at.
A 1-week project is a medium-scale project?! That's tiny, dude. A medium project for me is like 3 months of 12h days.
In many contexts, the common case is in fact bulk processing, and programming things with the assumption that everything is a single, discrete element creates several problems, mostly wrt. performance, but also maintainability. [1][2]
> The whole point of an arena allocator is the exact opposite of RAII
Yes, agreed. And the internet is rife with people yelling about just how great RAII is, but comparatively few people have written specifically about it's failings, and alternatives, which is what I'm asking about today.